DailyDirt: You Can't Believe Everything You See

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We've mentioned some interesting CGI work before, but the field of advanced video processing just continues to be amazing. Big Hollywood budgets won't be necessary if CGI software keeps getting better and better. Here are some cool clips we've seen.

Disney and Carnegie Mellon researchers are working on software to make animated faces look more realistic. And actors will eventually need to be Andy Serkis.

Out of all the CGI movies I've seen, I think the Shrek movies had the best facial animations. I could easily tell the mood of a character by their faces. The faces of characters in other animated films look fairly wooden in comparison. Of course the Shrek characters weren't exactly realistic, but I don't see why they can't apply the same techniques to more realistic character models.

For body movements, I think that the Starship Troopers TV show had the best animation. The first time I ever saw the show, without knowing anything about it, they were showing several characters moving around in space suits. I actually thought they were live actors until it showed their faces.

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I seriously think that CGI will get to the point where actors will basically be "voice actors" -- and their physical appearance will be almost always modified by graphic artists (like most magazine covers nowadays)....